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Climate Change Campaigns

To mark World Environment on June 4th, Steve Goodacre gave a climate change presentation to staff working at HSBC’s central offices.

A few members of the group supported the proposed development of the Loscar wind turbines.

Maureen helped with a Yes2Wind stall in the city centre promoting wind power.

The Co-op arranged a number of special screenings of Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, around the country. There was one in Sheffield on Saturday 2nd June which Julie visited to hand out The Big Ask Climate Change post cards

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Global Warming is resulting in more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice. This is placing people and communities at risk and it’s effects are already being felt around the world.

In May 2019 the UK Parliament declared a Climate Emergency, and over half of UK local authorities including Sheffield, Bansley, Rotherham and Doncaster councils have done likewise. By Autumn 2019 the Mayor of Sheffield City Region, Dan Jarvis MP has not declared a Climate Emergency to bring the region's local authorities together to produce a Climate Action Plan. Sheffield City Region includes the local authorities of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. For more information about Dan, click here.

Sheffield Friends of the Earth launched a petition calling on Dan Jarvis to declare a Climate Emergency. We had a good response rate, but to publicise the petition we made a giant ambulance which was driven to the climate emergency on the Town Hall steps by a cardboard vers…

Clean Air Demo
Sheffield City Council's Clean Air Consultation was launched on 1 July and there was an interview and photo in the Sheffield Star. See the article here.

Picture Credit: Richard Souter

Clean Air Zone Consultation
Individuals can respond and there is also potential for a Sheffield Friends of the Earth local group response as an organisation. The issues for FoE were discussed and Richard is co-ordinating a group response. There will be a meeting to finalise a group response at 7pm on 12 August in the Red Deer.